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“As long as justice is postponed we always stand on the verge of these darker nights of social disruption”...so said Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech on March 14, 1968, just three weeks before he was assassinated.

Wednesday, 6 December 2017

NEWS

Patch.com

Investigators are also interested in messages Trump Jr. exchanged with WikiLeaks, the website that leaked emails from top Democratic officials during the campaign. Trump Jr. arrived on Wednesday through a back entrance, out of sight of cameras. The Senate intelligence committee also hopes to ...

WRAL Tech Wire

Today, Moogfest unveils its 2018 festival lineup, which will focus on female, non-binary, and transgender artists. Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. soldier who disclosed 750,000 government documents to Wikileaks, now a privacy rights and transparency activist, will keynote the Durham-based event.

Crain's Chicago Business (blog)

What may be one of the sharpest confrontations of the probe into alleged Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election is set for Washington today, and a Chicago congressman will play a leading role. Scheduled to testify before the House Intelligence Committee is Donald Trump Jr., the ...

The Intercept

Roger Stone claims Credico was his secret liaison with Wikileaks during the election. We ask Randy what this is all about and if he plans to appear before Congress in a week. Journalist Barrett Brown spent four years in prison stemming from his involvement with Anonymous, LulzSec and other hacker ...

New Republic

Posobiec is an ally of the notorious Roger Stone, famed for his political dirty tricks, and the tweet echoed the phrase “time in a barrel,” which Stone had tweeted prior to scandals breaking out about Democratic Party bigwig John Podesta (the Wikileaks email leak) and Senator Al Franken (the accusations ...

Bloomberg

In a secret 1996 cable published by WikiLeaks, a U.S. diplomat in Riyadh reported that a handful of the most senior princes enriched themselves by skimming from “off-budget” programs that received 12.5 percent of the country's oil revenues. The diplomat said some royals used their power to confiscate ...

American Thinker (blog)

I'm sure that Vladimir Putin has read those tweets already, and I'm looking forward to their worldwide publication via Wikileaks, or some hacker in Bulgaria. FBI operatives Peter Strzok and Lisa Page got fired from the Mueller posse three months ago, but Mueller “forgot” to tell the Nunes Committee about ...

Vanguard

Wikileaks called him “the go to man to bring in girls, drugs and arms or conversely to export them”. Barely a few years later it was announced that he was marrying a governor's daughter. Corruption in Nigeria has cost us dearly. The CNN documentary on the Libyan slave auction traced its roots to Nigeria ...

International Business Times UK

On her Running Commentary blog, she had accused several top politicians in the country, including Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat and his aides, of corruption. Following her death, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange offered a €20,000 (£17,626; $23,656) reward for any information that leads to ...

Cayman Compass

While cyber-attacks in the past had been typically carried out by professional hackers, data leaks such as those of CIA and NSA hacking tools on Wikileaks, had now enabled amateurs to carry out the attacks. And although the data leaks had led to a huge number of ransomware attacks this year, Mr.

NY1

As the Russia probe into the Trump administration moves forward, things took an odd turn when comedian and satirist Randy Credico suddenly found himself in the middle of it. At issue is Credico's relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who leaked hacked emails during the 2016 ...

Daily Mail

She styled her blonde locks in bouncy curls and set off her pout with a slick of pink lipstick. Pamela recently opened up about her much-speculated on relationship with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, 46. 'I wouldn't say it's romantic, but we are very close,' she said on daytime show Megyn Kelly Today.

Chron.com

Day for Night has revealed set times for all three days of performances, Dec. 15-17 at Post HTX in downtown Houston. Things kick off at 4 p.m. Dec. 15 with a panel featuring Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier who spent time in a military prison for giving classified materials to WikiLeaks; visual ...

Business Standard

MSNBC

Pence's aides have maintained for months that their man was out of the loop, blissfully ignorant of contacts between the Trump campaign and various foreign actors, from the Russian ambassador to WikiLeaks. Their story has been consistent, even as it has left outside observers wondering how Trump's ...

Daily Beast

Alexander Nix, the data guru who offered to help Julian Assange distribute Hillary Clinton's emails, is scheduled to testify before the House intelligence committee on Dec. 14, according to a source familiar with the committee's interview schedule. The committee is also scheduled to interview Rhona Graff ...